Engineering Software

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MAURICIO ALEJANDRO ARAYA LOPEZ

* *** *******, ***** *****, France ********.*****@*****.**

+33-623****** http://webloria.loria.fr/ maraya/

GENERAL INFORMATION

Birthday January 29th, 1983

Nationality Chilean

Passport Number 15.098.618-4

Place of Birth Vina del Mar, Chile

Marital Status Married

Profession EngineerCV Version English Complete

LANGUAGES

Spanish Native

English AdvancedTest of English for International Communication, ETS 2008.

Result: 930 of 990

English Test for Academic and Professional Purposes, TIE 2008.

Result: 80%

First Certificate in English, University of Cambridge 2000.

Result: pass grade C

Preliminary English Test, University of Cambridge 1997.

Result: pass

French Basic

EDUCATION

2009 - Present PhD. student atEquipe MAIAof INRIA

Laboratoire LORIA / Universite de Nancy', Nancy, France.

2006 - 2008 Master of Science Degree in Informatics Engineering

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Mar' 'ia, Valpara'iso, Chile.

Rank # 1 of 17.

2001 - 2008 Informatics Engineering Degree

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Mar' 'ia, Valpara'iso, Chile.

Rank # 19 of 97.

2001 - 2005 Bachelor in Informatics Engineering Degree

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Mar' 'ia, Valpara'iso, Chile.

1997 - 2000 High-SchoolThe Mackay School, Renaca, Chile.

1987 - 1996 SchoolThe Mackay School, Renaca, Chile.

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EXPERIENCE

Part-Time Lecturerat Departamento de Informatica, Pontificia Universidad Cat' olica de

Valpara' 'iso.Com-

puter Networkslecture. Year 2008

Part-TimeLectureratDepartamentodeInformatica,UniversidadT'

'ecnicaFedericoSantaMar'ia.Program-

ming Paradigms and Languages,Networking WorkshopandProgramming Workshoplectures.

Years 2008-2009

Researcherat the ALMA-CONICYT 31060008 Project, Departamento de Informatica, Universidad

T' 'ecnica

Federico Santa Mar'ia. Generic telescope control system design for professional

telescopes. A time system

for complex control with real-time constraints. Years 2008-2009

Research Assistantat the ALMA-CONICYT 31060008 Project, Departamento de Informatica,

Universidad'

T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia. Alternative Real-Time Platforms for ACS using CORBA-based

Middlewares.

Benchmarking and Empirical Verification of complex and distributed software

infrastructures. Generic,

Distributed and Reliable Control for Amateur Telescopes with different mounts. Years 2007-

2008

ACS-UTFSM Team Leaderat the Computer Systems Research Group, Departamento de Informatica,

Uni-'

versidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia. Software engineering for large astronomical

projects. Collabo-

ration with the ALMA project, the European Southern Observatory, Gemini Observatory and

other local

telescopes. Official developer helpers of the ALMA Common Software. Research towards a

generic tele-

scope control system with real-time support. Years 2004-2007

Training Courses Teacherat Summer and Winter Informatics Training School, Universidad

T'ecnica Fed-

erico Santa Mar'ia.Advanced Networks,Basic LinuxandAdvanced Linuxcourses. Years 2003-2006

Lecture Assistantat Departamento de Informatica, Universidad T' 'ecnica Federico Santa

Mar'ia.Program-

ming Languages,Computers ArchitectureandOperating Systemslectures . Years 2004-2006

Software Engineering Internshipat Software Engineering Team, La Silla Observatory,

European South-

ern Observatory. Software Development of a versioning system front-end for ISO 9001:2000

documents.

Summer 2003-2004

System AdministratorInternshipat Central Services, Departamento de Informatica,

Universidad T' 'ecni-

ca Federico Santa Mar'ia. Versioning system implementation, firewall restructuration and

service mainti-

nance. Summer 2002-2003

System Administratorat Central Services, Departamento de Informatica, Universidad T'

'ecnica Federico

Santa Mar'ia. Firewall, Accounts, FTP and News administrator. Years 2003-2004

Laboratory Assistantat Computing Laboratory, Departamento de Informatica, Universidad T'

'ecnica Fed-

erico Santa Mar'ia. Linux installation and maintinance over IBM-Compatible and SUN

workstations. Au-

diting tool custom development. Years 2002-2003

PUBLICATIONS

control system: Towards a generic telescope control model. InAdvanced Software and

Control for Astrono-

my II, volume 7019. SPIE, 2008.

Papers published in National Congresses

[12] Mauricio Araya-Lopez, Olivier Buffet, and Vincent Thomas. Brl quasi-optimal' a

l aide de transitions locales`

optimistes. InActes des sept`emes journ'ees francophones planification, d'ecision,

apprentissage pour la conduite

de syst`emes (JFPDA 12), 2012.

[13] Mauricio Araya-Lopez, Vincent Thomas, Olivier Buffet, and Franc,ois Charpillet. Une

extension des pomdp'

avec des r'ecompenses d'ependant de l 'etat de croyance. InConf'erence Francophone

d Apprentissage 2011,

May 2011. [Best Paper Award].

[14] Mauricio Araya-Lopez, Vincent Thomas, Olivier Buffet, and Franc,ois Charpillet.

Apprentissage actif de'

mod`ele de mdp. In Actes des six`emes journ'ees francophones planification, d'ecision,

apprentissage pour la

conduite de syst`emes (JFPDA 11), 2011.

[15] Mauricio Araya-Lopez, Vincent Thomas, Olivier Buffet, and Franc,ois Charpillet. Des

pomdps avec des'

variables d 'etat visibles. InActes des cinqui`emes journ'ees francophones planification,

d'ecision, apprentissage

pour la conduite de syst`emes (JFPDA 10), 2010.

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[16] Horst von Brand, Mauricio Araya-Lopez, and Jorge Avarias. Desarrollo de memorias y

tesis usando her-'

ramientas colaborativas. InII Congreso Internacional de Informacion del Norte de Chile,

page 5, November

2010.

[17] Horst H. von Brand, Mauricio Araya-Lopez, and Jorge Ibsen. ACS Workshop An

experience teaching a'

complex framework. InCongreso de Educacion Superior en Educaci' on', page 18, November

2008.

[18] Rodrigo Tobar, Joao Lopez, Mauricio Araya-L' opez, and Horst H. von Brand. CSAT

deployment and final'

status. InEncuentro Chileno de Computacion', page 40, November 2008.

[19] Rodrigo Tobar, Mauricio Araya-Lopez, and Horst H. von Brand. Symbad: A new tool

designed to optimize'

minimal Linux distributions. InEncuentro Chileno de Computacion', page 35, November

2008.

[20] Mauricio Araya-Lopez, Jorge A. Avarias, Matias Mora, and Rodrigo Tobar. ALMA Common

Software '

UTFSM Group. InVI Reunion Anual Sociedad Chilena de Astronom' 'ia (SOCHIAS), page 58,

2007.

GRANTS

2009 PHD Scholarship to study at France, Master 2 de Investigacion y Doctorado by the'

French Embassy and CONICYT.

2007-2008 Scientific Initiation Grant by the Graduate School of Universidad T'ecnica

Federico Santa

Mar'ia.

2006-2008 Scholarship to study Master of Science Degree in Informatics Engineering by the

Gradu-

ate School of Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia.

2006-2008 Half Scholarship to study Informatics Engineering due high marks by the

Graduate

School of Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia.

PERSONAL MILESTONES

Awards Bestsoftware,mostpopularsoftwareandthebestmarkawardsonthe13thUTFSMSoft-

wareFair,withanOpenSourceSPECTtomographyreconstructionsoftware.Universidad

T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia. Year 2004

Outstanding student award for 5 years in a row. Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa

Mar'ia. Years 2003-2007

BestHigh-SchoolStudentonComputing,MathandMusic.TheMackaySchool.Year2000

Others Outstanding master thesis document and defence, obtaining the highest

qualification of

100%. Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia. Year 2008

2-weeks internship in European Souther Observatory headquarters to develop the Vx-

Works ACS support. Garching bei Munchen, Germany." Year 2007

ACMInternationalCollegiateProgrammingContest,SouthAmericaRegion.Coach,Iquique

and Punta Arenas, Chile. Years 2007-2008

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, South America Region. Contestant,

Chillan, Chile. Year 2003

PERSONAL REFERENCES

Franc,ois Charpillet Research Director, Ph.D.,

National Institute of Research in Automatics and Computer Science (INRIA).

(+33) 3 83592081,********.**********@*****.**

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Horst von Brand Associate Proffesor, Ph.D.,

Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Mar'ia (UTFSM).

+56-32-265****,********@***.*****.**

Nancy, 1st of January 2012

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